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The works of Shakespear in eight volumes : the genuine text (collated with all the former editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled, being restored from the blunders of the first editors, and the interpolations of the two last : with a comment and notes, critical and explanatory

by: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Warburton, William, 1698-1779, editor; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, author of introduction, editor; Birt, Samuel, -1755, bookseller; Longman, Thomas, 1699-1755, bookseller; Shewell, Thomas, active 1744-1748, bookseller; Lintot, Henry, 1703-1758, bookseller; Hitch, Charles, -1764, bookseller; Brindley, John, -1758, bookseller; Draper, Somerset, bookseller; Wellington, Richard, bookseller; New, E., active 18th century bookseller; Dodd, Benjamin, -1765, bookseller; Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; J. and R. Tonson, bookseller; John and Paul Knapton (Firm), bookseller

Publication date: 1747

Publisher: London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman and T. Shewell, H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. Brindley, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, R. Wellington, E. New, and B. Dod

Collection: bplsctpbs; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Volume: v.4

Item Size: 731.9M

Contains the dramatic works only, with an engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Vertue, after the Chandos portrait, at the front of volume. 1

v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure -- v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Merchant of Venice ; Love's labour's lost ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 3. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night ; Comedy of errors ; Winter's tale ; King John -- v. 4. King Richard II ; King Henry IV. Part 1 ; King Henry IV. Part 2 ; King Henry V ; King Henry VI. Part 1 -- v. 5. King Henry VI. Part 2 ; King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII -- v. 6. King Lear ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth ; Coriolanus -- v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Troilus and Cressida -- v. 8. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello

Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue

ESTC

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in early, likely 19th-Century red morocco and marbled paper over boards. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt and the top edges of the text blocks are gilt. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedowns and a bookseller's catalog entry, with price and date of purchase, is present on the pastedown of vol. 1

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Addeddate: 2014-08-13 14:54:19.714393

Associated-names: Warburton, William, 1698-1779, editor; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, author of introduction, editor; Birt, Samuel, -1755, bookseller; Longman, Thomas, 1699-1755, bookseller; Shewell, Thomas, active 1744-1748, bookseller; Lintot, Henry, 1703-1758, bookseller; Hitch, Charles, -1764, bookseller; Brindley, John, -1758, bookseller; Draper, Somerset, bookseller; Wellington, Richard, bookseller; New, E., active 18th century bookseller; Dodd, Benjamin, -1765, bookseller; Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; J. and R. Tonson, bookseller; John and Paul Knapton (Firm), bookseller